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Meanings of sombre in English

Lacking brightness or color; dull.

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        Grave or even gloomy in character.

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              Usage of sombre in English
              1
              Trading was sombre across most mainland markets amid various global negative drivers.
              Reuters
              2
              An eighty-mile walk over the Sea of Rains was a sombre thought.
              The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
              3
              The sombre figures of the older gods encircled him in wrathful excitement.
              Best Russian Short Stories
              4
              Working behind the bar, rock-n-roll-vinyl fan Gabriel makes a more sombre point.
              The Guardian
              5
              Wrapped in these sombre musings I walked beside him in profound silence.
              Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
              6
              It was a week more sombre than any of us can remember.
              The Irish Times
              7
              The two colonels were at the head of the sombre little column.
              The Tree of Appomattox
              8
              The lamps of the room threw the court-yard into a sombre relief.
              A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
              9
              There was a really sombre atmosphere around the place by that stage.
              The Irish Times
              10
              The verses added in the present edition are more pensive, even sombre.
              Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
              11
              Homer, too, is in general buoyant, the Nibelungenlied is sombre and stern.
              The Nibelungenlied / Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the...
              12
              They talked for several hours, and Schulz looked pale and sombre afterwards.
              The Guardian
              13
              She was staring fixedly at the sombre red mass of the mountain.
              The Hunted Woman
              14
              Bobby thought he was speaking to the sombre figure in the mask.
              The Abandoned Room
              15
              I can imagine them, he said, with a sort of sombre gratification.
              The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
              16
              It started in a sombre way but with no undertow of despair.
              The Irish Times
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